What should a 20-year-old do in life - Sadhguru Answers a Student
- 4 years ago
Sadhguru answers a question from a college student about what he should do to live a life of truth, involvement and fulfillment.
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Questioner: I am a twenty-year-old university student striving to live a life of truth, involvement, fulfillment. How should I and people my age balance the inner path with the outer world, be… going to school, getting a professional career or spending more time at the ashram? (Few Laugh)
Sadhguru: (Laughs) See, all of us have to live in this universe. No choice about it right now. But university is a choice and that’s why you’re asking this question. (Laughs) How much time? Education is of value to do certain things, but what should we be doing – as individual human beings, as a generation of people, what should we be doing in our lives? Because people do not know what they should be doing because they never open their eyes and look at the rest of the world, they will take on odd purposes.
This lady comes to me, somewhere (Laughs) – let me not tell the geography, people may start guessing who she is and what she is (Laughs) – this lady comes to me and says she is going through a hairdressing course, some two-year course in some university, something. And, she felt it’s a calling. God told her that “You must become a hairdresser.” You must show your head to her. (Laughter) (Questioner is bald) This twenty-year-old university student, if others did not notice… you saw his hairstyle? (Laughter) If this becomes everybody’s calling, what will hap to… happen to her profession?
(Laughs) This happened. Two nuns went to the grocery store. They bought many things and one of them said, “Would you like to have some beer?” The other one said, “Yeah, for sure. It’s been a long time. But… how are we going to face the salesperson there?” This one said, “You don’t worry. I will take care of it.” She went there, picked up a twelve-pack case of the beer, took it and put it on the counter in front of the salesperson. This salesperson raised his eyebrows and looked at her – “Nun buying beer!?” So she said, “No, no, we use it as a shampoo for our hair.” (Laughter) So, the salesperson without batting an eyelid made the bill and also kept a packet of pretzels and said, “You can use this as the curlers.” (Laughter) So, God communicates to people and says, “You must become a hairdresser.”… What a vain man he must be (Laughter) to be sending out these kind of messages to people! (Laughs)
You know, somebody went to war. A destructive purposeless war and when he was asked why, he said, “God told me.” You remember? Not so long ago. Long time ago, many times they were told. We thought in recent times, he has come to his senses, (Few Laugh) but even in twenty first century, he did it.
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Questioner: I am a twenty-year-old university student striving to live a life of truth, involvement, fulfillment. How should I and people my age balance the inner path with the outer world, be… going to school, getting a professional career or spending more time at the ashram? (Few Laugh)
Sadhguru: (Laughs) See, all of us have to live in this universe. No choice about it right now. But university is a choice and that’s why you’re asking this question. (Laughs) How much time? Education is of value to do certain things, but what should we be doing – as individual human beings, as a generation of people, what should we be doing in our lives? Because people do not know what they should be doing because they never open their eyes and look at the rest of the world, they will take on odd purposes.
This lady comes to me, somewhere (Laughs) – let me not tell the geography, people may start guessing who she is and what she is (Laughs) – this lady comes to me and says she is going through a hairdressing course, some two-year course in some university, something. And, she felt it’s a calling. God told her that “You must become a hairdresser.” You must show your head to her. (Laughter) (Questioner is bald) This twenty-year-old university student, if others did not notice… you saw his hairstyle? (Laughter) If this becomes everybody’s calling, what will hap to… happen to her profession?
(Laughs) This happened. Two nuns went to the grocery store. They bought many things and one of them said, “Would you like to have some beer?” The other one said, “Yeah, for sure. It’s been a long time. But… how are we going to face the salesperson there?” This one said, “You don’t worry. I will take care of it.” She went there, picked up a twelve-pack case of the beer, took it and put it on the counter in front of the salesperson. This salesperson raised his eyebrows and looked at her – “Nun buying beer!?” So she said, “No, no, we use it as a shampoo for our hair.” (Laughter) So, the salesperson without batting an eyelid made the bill and also kept a packet of pretzels and said, “You can use this as the curlers.” (Laughter) So, God communicates to people and says, “You must become a hairdresser.”… What a vain man he must be (Laughter) to be sending out these kind of messages to people! (Laughs)
You know, somebody went to war. A destructive purposeless war and when he was asked why, he said, “God told me.” You remember? Not so long ago. Long time ago, many times they were told. We thought in recent times, he has come to his senses, (Few Laugh) but even in twenty first century, he did it.